Trends in acoustic neuroma and cellular phones: Is there a link?
| Autor: | N. Cooper, Paul Nelson, Paul Elliott, M. B. Toledano, J. McConville, M. J. Quinn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Population Acoustic neuroma Adverse health effect Phone Humans Medicine European standard Registries education Retrospective Studies education.field_of_study Wales business.industry Incidence Neuroma Acoustic medicine.disease Surgery Radio frequency radiation England Female Neurology (clinical) business Cell Phone Demography |
| Zdroj: | Neurology. 66:284-285 |
| ISSN: | 1526-632X 0028-3878 |
| Popis: | Cellular phone use began in the United Kingdom in 1985. Sales increased slowly until 1992, more rapidly to 1997, before substantial growth to 2005 (figure).1 The UK Stewart Report2 into cellular phones and health concluded: “It is not possible at present to say that exposure to radio frequency radiation, even at levels below national guidelines, is totally without potential adverse health effects, and that the gaps in knowledge are sufficient to justify a precautionary approach.” Figure. Active UK cellular phone subscriptions, 1984 to 2004 (right scale), and age-standardized rate* of acoustic neuroma and other benign cranial nerve neoplasms among people of all ages in England and Wales, 1979 to 2001 (left scale). *Directly age standardized using the European standard population; 3-year moving averages. A recent case-control study from Sweden found up to fourfold risk associated with cellular phone use of 10 or more years’ duration.3 A number of studies both in Europe and the United States have found little or no evidence of an effect,4 and a recent report from five countries suggests … |
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